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Unemployment and mortality: Evidence from the PSID

Halliday, Timothy J. - In: Social Science & Medicine 113 (2014) C, pp. 15-22

We use micro-data to investigate the relationship between unemployment and mortality in the United States using Logistic regression on a sample of over 16,000 individuals. We consider baselines from 1984 to 1993 and investigate mortality up to ten years from the baseline. We show that poor local...

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The long lasting effects of education on old age health: Evidence of gender differences

Mazzonna, Fabrizio - In: Social Science & Medicine 101 (2014) C, pp. 129-138

The large and positive association between education and many health outcomes is well-documented but what drives this …

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The inconsistent mediating effects of psychosocial work characteristics on the education–health relationship

Qiu, Hanyao; Bures, Regina; Shehan, Constance L. - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 8, pp. 1539-1546

. Informed by the evidence on the relationship between work pressure and higher education, we suggested reframing the … distribution of psychosocial work characteristics in the context of education. We differentiated psychosocial work resources from … resources and demands had inconsistent mediating effects on the education–health relationship. Higher educated employees were …

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To what extent do biomarkers account for the large social disparities in health in Moscow?

Glei, Dana A.; Goldman, Noreen; Shkolnikov, Vladimir M.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 77 (2013) C, pp. 164-172

The Russian population continues to face political and economic challenges, has experienced poor general health and high mortality for decades, and has exhibited widening health disparities. The physiological factors underlying links between health and socioeconomic position in the Russian...

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The association between parent’s health and the educational attainment of their children

Boardman, Jason D.; Alexander, Kari B.; Miech, Richard A.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 5, pp. 932-939

In this paper we compare the educational attainment of adults who had relatively unhealthy parents when they were adolescents to those whose parents were relatively healthy during this time of their lives. We use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (n = 13,556) to...

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Education and health knowledge: Evidence from UK compulsory schooling reform

Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 127 (2015) C, pp. 92-100

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … 15) and 1972 (from 15 to 16) to provide exogenous variation in education. These reforms predominantly induced adolescents … who would have left school to stay for one additionally mandated year. OLS estimates suggest that education significantly …

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What can genes tell us about the relationship between education and health?

Boardman, Jason D.; Domingue, Benjamin W.; Daw, Jonathan - In: Social Science & Medicine 127 (2015) C, pp. 171-180

common genetic influences are associated with education and three health outcomes: depression, self-rated health, and body … evidence that education (h2 = 0.33), BMI (h2 = 0.43), depression (h2 = 0.19), and self-rated health (h2 = 0.18) are all … moderately heritable phenotypes. We also provide evidence that some of the correlation between depression and education as well …

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